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Latter Day Poetry

Cabbages and Kings

Till my eyes bug out my head."

Not only can these lyrics show relationship to authors, but they can be intimately bound to major American writers, placing them in the main stream of our national literature. Walt Whitman has left his spirit in one lyric:

"Choo-choo choo-choo ch-boogie

Woo-woo boogie woogie, choo-choo

Choo-choo ch-boogie."

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The technique and wry humor of Robert Frost appear in yet another:

"See that squirrel on the wall

If he had a brain at all

He would be, yes sirree

By you, by you, by you."

Hemingway mingled with James Jones is also in evidence.

"Ev'rytime I kiss you and hold you tight

I'm playing with dynamite,

I know you're dangerous,

But I'm not afraid."

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